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NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, June 1998The equality of men and women in the sight of God, argued from the Quran against hadith teachings that keep women from the temple and the Friday Congregational Prayer, leads this issue, written by an incarcerated brother. Contradictions among hadiths follow, along with letters from readers and new converts, and an announcement of the 1998 Submitters conference in Seattle, Washington.June 1, 1998

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, May 1998Life on earth as a test of choosing God alone over Satan's point of view, with racism named as Satan's principle and faith described as fine tuning away character defects. Masjid Tucson reports its interfaith soup kitchen and scripture study group, and the 1998 conference in Seattle is announced. A closing piece reads the spider's web of 29:41 as the flimsiness of idol worship.May 1, 1998

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, April 1998The common message of God shared by Jews, Christians, and Submitters, traced through parallels between the Epistle of James and the Quran, with Abraham as the founder of Submission and a call to unity against global suffering. Honesty is examined through trust, truth, and equitable trade. A deadly stampede at the 1998 Hajj is blamed on restricting pilgrimage to a few days instead of the four sacred months.April 1, 1998

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, March 1998A former Lutheran recounts her path from the Trinity to the Quran alone, arguing that hadith traditions set up a partner with God, that the Quran is complete, and that Jews, Christians, and Muslims worship one and the same God. Letters from incarcerated believers request copies of Quran: The Final Testament, and the office announces new telephone hours.March 1, 1998

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, February 1998Paradise and how to earn it through reverence in the contact prayer, obligatory charity, inviting to God without self promotion, repentance and steadfastness, drawn from Quranic verses. A second essay explains that this life is a test in prosperity and adversity, citing the tested prophets. Also defines who a Submitter is, introduces ICS, and notes the 1998 conference is still being planned.February 1, 1998

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, January 1998Ramadan as a gift of remembrance, tracing how God uses food, water, and fasting to test people and draw them toward constant awareness of Him, with the Quranic conditions of the fast. Also covers a Singapore charity luncheon for over 200 children, the Night of Destiny when the Quran was placed into Muhammad's soul, and its date this Ramadan.January 1, 1998

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, December 1997The human traits God created in us, such as weakness, anxiety, stinginess, impatience, ingratitude, anger and arrogance, and how the Quran calls believers to overcome them through trust, charity, patience, appreciation and forgiveness. The issue also gives the Ramadan 1997 to 1998 dates, reports on the Tucson interfaith Thanksgiving service with a Hindu story likened to 18:60 to 82, and urges looking for the good in hardship.December 1, 1997

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, November 1997The lunar Islamic calendar as God designed it, with God's prohibition of intercalation, the day beginning at sunset, and how to calculate the start of each lunar month. Also covers why submitters are always in the minority, the dates of Ramadan for 1997 to 1998, and Masjid Tucson's interfaith soup kitchen and new interfaith study group on the scriptures of Judaism, Christianity, and the Quran.November 1, 1997

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, October 1997The Islamic calendar as the oldest calendar, the twelve lunar months set by God since creation, traced through Sumerian, Julian, Gregorian, Hebrew and Church calendars to the Hegira. A Ramadan article urges eating and drinking moderately, linking gluttony to disease and caring for the body as a test from God. Readers are asked to send Quranic lessons for children's booklets.October 1, 1997

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, September 1997The contact prayers, traced through the Quran to Abraham and his followers, with their daily times, the Friday Congregational Prayer, and the 2, 4, 4, 3, 4 units confirmed by mathematical facts based on the number 19. Extra Sunnah units are rejected as unauthorized. A report on the 12th annual international conference of submitters in Tucson follows, with a call for children's Quranic study booklets.September 1, 1997

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, August 1997God as the Creator of all things, argued from the order and design of the universe and supported with verses from the Quran. Letters from incarcerated readers request Qurans and literature, and one describes a prison community's court struggle to establish Islam. A closing essay distinguishes knowing from believing and calls the struggle to make belief real in one's heart the true jihad.August 1, 1997

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, July 1997The Quran's mathematical system based on the number 19, and why 19: the abjad value of wahid (ONE), with Dr. Cesar Majul's 1984 finding that exactly 19 verses use wahid for God's Oneness. Lydia Kelley reflects on bird migration as a sign of God's plan and a lesson in worshiping God alone. Also a reader's letter from Australia and notice of the 1997 Tucson conference.July 1, 1997

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, June 1997The cosmic fine tuning that science has uncovered, from the force of the Big Bang to carbon and oxygen, is presented as proof of God's design, with the anthropic principle and multiple universe theories rejected. A second article, the first of two on birds, treats their structure and flight as signs from God. A final reminder announces the August 1997 conference in Tucson, Arizona.June 1, 1997

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, May 1997Ali Parnian argues from the Quran that God alone judges, urging submitters to stop condemning those with different views or levels of righteousness and to agree to disagree. Letters from prisoners and a prison chaplain describe how the Final Testament and the newsletter changed their worship. Registration and hotel details follow for the 12th Annual United Submitters International Conference in Tucson, August 1997.May 1, 1997

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, April 1997The Quran's mathematical structure based on the number 19, centered on the Basmalah, its 19 letters and four words, with new findings by Katerina Kullman, including 1919 verses containing those words. A second article explains Hajj and Umrah as practices from Abraham, the corrected Sacred Months, each rite in order, and why visiting Muhammad's tomb is an added innovation.April 1, 1997

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, March 1997Unity among the growing and diverse Muslim community in America, argued to rest on the Quran as the one shared standard rather than traditions, scholars or Hadith. Submitters are described as simple observers of a simple religion who keep the contact prayers and avoid division. Also includes a poem from a youth newsletter and an announcement of the 1997 Submitters conference in Tucson.March 1, 1997

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, February 1997The missing Basmalah of Sura 9 and the evidence that verses 9:128 and 9:129 were added after Muhammad's death, drawn from historical sources and the Quran's mathematical structure based on the number 19. The issue also announces the 1997 United Submitters International Conference in Tucson, Arizona, and offers a prayer of submission asking God for guidance and forgiveness.February 1, 1997

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, January 1997The concluding part of Kassim Ahmad's introduction to Hadith: A Re-evaluation answers expected charges that upholding the Quran alone creates a new sect or rejects the Prophet's role, and sets out a Quranic method for judging hadith. Abdullah Arik shows that the practices of Submission, including the contact prayers, came through Abraham, not Muhammad. A reader in West Africa asks to keep receiving the newsletter.January 1, 1997

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, December 1996Kassim Ahmad's introduction to Hadith: A Re-evaluation argues that the hadith, falsely attributed to Prophet Muhammad, caused the disunity and decline of Muslims, who deserted the Quran amid a century of world crisis. Lydia Kelley draws on Sura 18, verse 5:4, and the Book of Tobit to show that God does not prohibit dogs. A notice gives the Ramadan fasting dates for 1997.December 1, 1996

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, November 1996Kassim Ahmad's introduction to his book Hadith: A Re-evaluation traces hadith to Shafi`i's theory two centuries after Muhammad and argues that hadith, not modernity or secularism, caused Muslim decline, with renewal lying in a return to the Quran alone. Also reported are Masjid Tucson's food drive, soup kitchen work, and interfaith Thanksgiving service, plus excerpts from a Bill Clinton speech on religious tolerance.November 1, 1996

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, October 1996Setting a goal in life, read through a Moneysworth magazine article on personal mission statements, leads to the Quran's answer: worship God alone and lead a righteous life to please Him, with priority on the Hereafter. Letters from prisoners and a chaplain thank Masjid Tucson for Qurans and newsletters. A closing piece presents the Quran's mathematical code as proof it is God's authentic message.October 1, 1996

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, September 1996Worship of one universal God across Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism and Islam, drawing on the Bible, the Bhagavad Gita and the Quran, and arguing that intercessors divide believers. An essay holds that the prophet Muhammad followed the Quran alone, citing his marriage to Zeid's former wife. Also a report on the 11th International Submitters Conference in Houston and a personal prayer of submission.September 1, 1996

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, August 1996Two paths, toward God and away from God, frame the lead essay by Maria Abdin on submission, repentance, free will, idol worship, and the moral decay of families and societies. Lydia Kelley looks past the physical images of Paradise to the Quran's emotional promises: no worries, lies, jealousy, or boredom. A closing note states the aim of purging innovations by upholding the Quran alone.August 1, 1996

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, July 1996Incarceration as a possible blessing in disguise opens the issue, in a reprinted article by Dr. Rashad Khalifa urging prisoners who find pure Islam to join God's kingdom. A prisoner in Texas writes asking for Quranic materials and legal standing for his study group apart from Sunni doctrine. Also included are verses on the righteous from Sura 25, a reflection on idolizing cars, and details of the 1996 Houston conference.July 1, 1996

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, June 1996Muhammad's literacy is argued from the Quran's first command to read, the accusation in 25:4 to 5, the meaning of ummy as gentile, and Ibn Ishaq's record of his letter to Musaylima. A second article traces the number 57 in the Quran, from the letter qaf to the word majid and the occurrences of the word Quran. Registration details for the 1996 Houston conference follow.June 1, 1996

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, May 1996Male circumcision is weighed through the Torah, the Gospels, and Paul's letters, with arguments for and against it as a practice for Submitters, though the Quran never mentions it; a note rejects female circumcision. A reader's essay urges holding fast to the Quran amid idol worshiping family. Registration details follow for the 11th annual conference in Houston, August 1996.May 1, 1996

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, April 1996The hadith and sunnah debate, urging Submitters to identify the assumptions behind each side and holding that the Quran alone is sufficient guidance. A mathematical observation ties suras 47, 82, 87 and 96 to the number 19 and supports 127 verses for Sura 9. Parents are urged to teach children chastity through God's laws and Luqman's advice, alongside details of the 1996 Houston conference.April 1, 1996

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, March 1996Excerpts from Dr. Kassim Ahmad's open letter to Malaysia's leaders answer charges that the Quranic Society of Malaysia is anti-hadith, arguing that false hadith breed blind obedience, distrust of reason, and fatalism, and calling for hadith to be judged by the Quran. A reader in Pakistan recounts becoming a submitter, and a notice announces the August 1996 conference in Houston.March 1, 1996

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, February 1996Satan as the Master Hypnotist, in a second part that sets eleven traits of hypnotized subjects beside Quranic examples of disbelievers who reject the Quran alone and flee its mathematical code. A study of Sura 97 places the Night of Destiny on the 27th of Ramadan by counting its letters and words. The issue also announces the August 1996 United Submitters International Conference in Houston.February 1, 1996

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, January 1996Satan as the Master Hypnotist, who controls those who reject God alone and the Quran alone, leads the issue as Part I of a series. A guide to imploring God gathers the best prayers from the Quran and explains why some prayers go unanswered. Also covered: Sunni, Shi'a and Christian posters uniting online against Submitters, and the August 1996 conference in Houston.January 1, 1996

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, December 1995One God and one religion of submission run through Hindu scripture, the Torah, the Gospels, and the Quran, and the lead essay asks why their followers stay divided. A companion piece traces each of the Ten Commandments to Quranic verses. A Bosnian war veteran reflects on Dr. Khalifa's writings, his murder, and Muslim distortion through Hadith and Sunnah, and the issue lists Ramadan 1996 dates.December 1, 1995

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, November 1995Appreciation of God's blessings as a daily practice rather than a once a year Thanksgiving, drawing on Quranic verses and Abraham Lincoln's words. A second article presents the human immune system as God's precise design for our protection. Masjid Tucson reports on its part in an interfaith Thanksgiving service, with the shared prayer of thanksgiving, and on its soup kitchen work.November 1, 1995

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, October 1995A speech on Western misjudgment of Islam argues that extremists have distorted the common view, and that Sharia law, the position of women and the veil should not be judged by extreme cases. It notes rights for women prescribed by the Quran, medieval Islam's tolerance toward Jews and Christians, and Islam's integral view of the universe, which the West lost with the scientific revolution.October 1, 1995

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, September 1995The second part of a study of the hajj in the Bible traces the Hebrew word hag, the station of Abraham, and Psalm 84's pilgrimage through the valley of Baca, read as Becca or Mecca, in light of the Quran. The issue also reports on the Tenth Annual Conference of the United Submitters in Tucson, focused on young Submitters, and prints readers' letters rejecting Hadith and Sunna.September 1, 1995

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NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, July 1995Caring for aging parents is the main subject, with Quran verses on honoring parents and personal accounts of tending dying and ailing mothers and fathers. A reflection on trusting God's answers over debate with those who do not seek truth follows. The issue also gives a final reminder for the August 1995 United Submitters Conference in Tucson and lists publications for sale.July 1, 1995

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, June 1995Modern cosmology, from the Big Bang to the expanding universe, is set beside Quranic verses as proof of God and a call to drop sects and traditions and worship God alone. A reading of 42:32 to 34 compares ships to mountains sailing through space, and salamander regeneration illustrates 75:3 to 4 on resurrection. Also included are details of the August 1995 Tucson conference and Tucson's new area code.June 1, 1995

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, May 1995Edip Yuksel answers an Internet questioner on why all hadith should be discarded and the Quran alone followed, with a list of contradictory and blasphemous hadith. An essay on God's forgiveness and mercy follows, covering repentance, reverence and pardoning others. Also included are Tucson community news, among them an interfaith forum, an Oklahoma City vigil and a soup kitchen, and registration details for the 1995 Submitters conference.May 1, 1995

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, April 1995God's promise of sovereignty and perfect happiness to submitters who fulfill His commandments, with guidance on repentance, meditation, and magnifying God, drawn from Quranic verses on predestination and God's control. A review of the Quran's mathematical structure based on 19 presents a new fact: concatenating sura numbers with their verse counts gives a total that is a multiple of 19. A brief piece addresses religion as a business.April 1, 1995

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, March 1995God's oneness and His attribute as Lord (rabb) of the universe anchor the lead essay by Hussein Kowsari, which draws on the Quran, physics, and the life cycles of stars to urge total submission to God's will. The issue also announces the August 1995 United Submitters Conference in Tucson and Tucson's new area code, and introduces the Quran's mathematical miracle based on the number 19.March 1, 1995

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, February 1995Fasting, decreed through Abraham and practiced by the messengers, opens the issue, followed by an essay urging readers to test the Quran's mathematical proof based on 19, with lessons from Moses, Saleh, and Rashad Khalifa. It mourns submitters Ghazy and Najah Ali, Otis Smith, and Virginia Marston, and announces Tucson's area code change and a Ramadan Quran offer.February 1, 1995

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, January 1995Seeking to please God as the defining trait of submitters, with Quranic guidance on avoiding backbiting, ridicule and anger and resorting to the nicest possible response in debate. Also continues a discussion of Eisenman's Dead Sea Scrolls theories about Jesus, James and St. Paul, set against the Quran as the only unaltered word of God, and announces new postal rates and a Ramadan Quran offer.January 1, 1995

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, December 1994A Christmas reflection recalls an Indonesian teacher reading the Quran's account of Mary and the birth of Jesus, noting the ripe dates that point to an autumn birth and Jesus's worship of God alone. The issue reflects on the camel's creation, summarizes the final talks of the 9th annual conference, lists submitter communities worldwide, and offers Dr. Rashad Khalifa's translation and other publications.December 1, 1994

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, November 1994Masjid Tucson's full reply to Signs Magazine, which devoted an issue to attacking Dr. Rashad Khalifa, after the magazine printed only excerpts. The reply defends messengership, the mathematical miracle based on nineteen, the removal of 9:128 and 129, and the history of his translations, listing points of his message from the Quran. A short piece on Thanksgiving quotes Abraham Lincoln on forgetting God.November 1, 1994

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, October 1994Children's language acquisition, Noam Chomsky's theory of an innate universal grammar, and the Quran's teaching on languages as signs from God lead this October 1994 bulletin. Further notes on the 9th Annual Conference cover Ali Fazely's prime number mathematics, submission as the answer to political failure, dogs in scripture, Sharia debates in Indonesia and Malaysia, and following the Quran alone rather than idolizing Rashad Khalifa.October 1, 1994

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, September 1994The statement There is no god except He is presented as the first pillar of submission and the one message of all messengers, with fifteen facts showing its 19-based mathematical coding in the Quran. The coding is offered as proof that Sura 9 has 127 verses, not 129, and that the correct Shahadah mentions God alone. Also included are a new fax line, plans for the 1995 Tucson conference, and a correction.September 1, 1994

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, August 1994Setting goals and priorities, with Quranic verses urging submitters to put the Hereafter and pleasing God alone above worldly ambitions. The issue reports on the 9th annual United Submitters conference in Bellingham, Washington, and a conference on the Quran's mathematical miracle. It answers scholars who dispute the verse count, confirming 6346 verses through the number 19 and a new finding in Sura 110.August 1, 1994

NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, July 1994Hadith as a religious source takes center stage, with an internet posting of conflicting hadiths on drinking while standing used to argue that the Quran alone is complete and consistent. An essay on Sura Joseph contrasts physical beauty with the inner garment of righteousness. The issue also announces the 9th Annual International Conference of United Submitters in Bellingham, Washington.July 1, 1994

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